More DIY mockups will help you better size up the BlackBerry Mercury

More homemade comparisons of the BlackBerry Mercury will give you a better understanding of how it sizes up to the Passport and Priv!

CrackBerry member Twopack was blown away by the community's response to his first BlackBerry 'Mercury' Mockup, so he went back to his BlackBerry Arts & Crafts counter to whip up a version two Mercury mockup, which is a little more accurate than the first one.

In addition to comparing it once again to the BlackBerry Passport, by popular request he also did up a model of the Priv (since he didn't have one handy) to compare it to with both the slider open and closed. There are also a couple of photos comparing the Mercury to a Note 4 that he had handy.

Overall, the models should help provide you with a better perspective of the size of "The Merc" as compared to other recent BlackBerry phones. And note, these are mockups so may not be exact. The good news is we're now less than two weeks away from getting our hands on the Mercury again for real and I'll make sure we head to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress with a lot of BB's in bag so we can do comparison photos.

Props again to Twopack for taking the time to put this together. Fun stuff!

Mercury vs. Passport

Mercury vs. PRIV Models (slider open and closed)

Mercury vs. Galaxy Note 4

New Mercury Mockup vs. Original Mercury Mockup

Reader comments

More DIY mockups will help you better size up the BlackBerry Mercury

I was hoping it would be slightly smaller/shorter than the Priv. The Priv is difficult to use with one hand. I guess I'll have to see it in person first, and that would probably mean seeing it in a carrier store... which is difficult to do for a BlackBerry in the U.S.

Thanks for posting that link. Good video. I do wish he had opened the Priv to show the keyboard but, just eye balling it, it looks like the physical keyboards will be the same width. That's a good thing.

If you slide the Priv open and look inside of the tracks for the top slide, that's about the width of the Mercury, which has a keyboard to its edges.

Coupled with what looks like greater key travel, I think the PKB is going to be great.

I have a Passport and it's still a neat device, but the keyboard is a little too wide and missing an important row.

It is looking like a more and more compelling replacement for my Priv. The difficulty for me is that I do occasionally use the VKB, which won't be an option , and other Chinese manufacturers are coming out with some amazing phones at very close to the anticipated price point.

Presumably, the hub Suite will continue to be free on TCL phones, and that has to be considered (because I would pay for it on another phone).

God it's ugly and pretty simultaneously. The button should have been on screen. The screen borders are ugly and there is just too much space. They really should have maximised on screen space. I think it's a nice phone and I'd like to try it. Just aesthetically I think it could have been better designed. It's odd.

We hope that this device will benefit of more homogenity as well. The se look, ilooks like the se look the Porsche design have is own. Mixed metal top a non metallic bottom looks unachieved and strange for sure. The passport série and the Porsche design série have very good overall design and should be An inspiration.
The Priv 1.0 have a good design too. Some details aren't. CPU and image processor. Are not as good as expect. And not enough of blackberry productivity details and fonctions in the software and a bet:ter integration between android and BlackBerry productivity It is now expect (or a windows version ) from his successor.

Maybe because most of crackberry users seem not pleased by first grind. And maybe because Dtek 60 is quite a good phone whit usual form factor. If Alcatel try to design a BlackBerry lovers's phone, I suppose they have to love it.
When you go somewhere like a restaurant with a first edition passport, peaople still impressed and are jealous to have one till they heard about the OS run in the beast.

For the Priv, people are suprised, but after all it is a good android BlackBerry's Accessory integrated. In addition, it is not serving big tumbs as well than the passport do.

It is not a different way of thinking and use a phone as it is with the passport form factor.
Passport is maybe the last and most sophisticated tumb's user phone.

I think what BlackBerry fan really wait a this time is a another passport upgrade... and it is seem to going more to a Priv, upgrade!?

I Just remind the passport mesurements::

BlackBerry Passport(international)

Height 128 mm / 5.04 in

Width 90.3 mm / 3.56 in

Depth 9.3 mm / 0.37 in

So my passport 2.0 is inspired more by the International design.

Height less than 133 mm

Width. 86 mm(because of the framless screen)

Depht 9mm or less.

Keyboard without the margin, is the samesize as first édition.
Display is a frameless 4",7 inch size.
The phone front top is discret and thin for more display size gain.

One of the reason we love to use passport is that feel it as a short device.
But in other way a few millimeters of screen could make video watching more pleasant.
The same phone but with update design and a little something different that's to the main idea.
The general aspect have to be a screen + a keyboard.

This phone need a good image processor, 4 gig of ram, a capable GPU as well and a sure shot CPU. A 4000 am/h the biggest could fit in.
A hiding pen?

And the mercury all over it?
The Priv 2.0 should be logically the next step.
In that case the new mercury design with no android buttons row and a slimer top could be a good succeSsor.

I have the classic, it is a good phone but typing on it get to be difficult sometimes due to the size. I think the Mercury will be a good phone because it is bigger and the keyboard will be wider. The keyboard on the classic is small and tight.

I feel this is going to be one awkward device to type on. I feel like hands will be squished together and the phone will feel top heavy when typing. Square devices like the Q10/classic work so much better with a fixed physical keyboard. Who knows maybe it'll end up being excellent, but that's what it looks like from photos.

I applaud blackberry mobile for giving this design a shot, as this is what people have asked for for quite awhile now. It is the only alternative for a good physical keyboard experience on Android. Will be interesting to say the least how the final product turns out.

I think it is ever so slightly taller than the Priv, I based this off the side by side comparison of the Merc and DTEK60 from android central and the dimensions of the DTEK60 vs the Priv. But I don't think it will be very much at all, maybe a mm or two

I just hope the keys are deceiving me - I have a classic in storage, and returned the Priv - the SE keys are the right size but after time I have noticed the device is too wide for typing and hurts my inner palm after a while I have to hold it a funny way which isn't comfortable unless your arms are propped on something idk if I am saying this correctly

It's really not that big in my opinion. But I've gotten comfortable with the passport. The Merc size seems like it would be pretty darn comfortable, but like Kev just said we're like 2 weeks out, so we don't have that much longer to wait. Thanks again Kevin for the post, you rock bro.

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